Welcome to DU!
The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards.
Join the community:
Create a free account
Support DU (and get rid of ads!):
Become a Star Member
Latest Breaking News
Editorials & Other Articles
General Discussion
The DU Lounge
All Forums
Issue Forums
Culture Forums
Alliance Forums
Region Forums
Support Forums
Help & Search
Korean firm accidently gives customers 2000 bitcoin each ($137m) instead of 2000 won ($1.37)
A South Korean cryptocurrency exchange accidentally gave away more than $40bn (£32bn) worth of bitcoin to customers, briefly making them multi-millionaires.
It had planned to give customers a small cash reward of 2,000 won - $1,37 - but instead gave them 2,000 bitcoins on Friday.
The platform, Bithumb, apologised for the error, adding that it quickly had realised its mistake and recovered almost all the missing tokens.
It said it had restricted trading and withdrawals for the 695 affected customers within 35 minutes of the glitch.
The company said it had recovered 99.7% of the 620,000 bitcoins mistakenly sent.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz6y62nzjxxo
It had planned to give customers a small cash reward of 2,000 won - $1,37 - but instead gave them 2,000 bitcoins on Friday.
The platform, Bithumb, apologised for the error, adding that it quickly had realised its mistake and recovered almost all the missing tokens.
It said it had restricted trading and withdrawals for the 695 affected customers within 35 minutes of the glitch.
The company said it had recovered 99.7% of the 620,000 bitcoins mistakenly sent.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz6y62nzjxxo
Keystone Kash.
